*WARNING* YOU COULD BE FUSED TO ENTRY INTO THAILAND
This was the worst Airbnb experience for me.
WHAT HAPPENED:
Upon reservation, the host told me Airbnb is legal in Thailand, but a TM30 form is needed. So we provide our information for filling the form. Also, the host told me only his name, contact number and address of the house should be provided for passing the immigration.
However, when we reached the immigration at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the immigration staff asked for a photo of the host’s government ID during the process of applying visa-on-arrival. I called and sent messages to the host but he just won’t pick up my calls.
After we stuck in the immigration about 1 hour, the host replied to me in Airbnb (he said his phone ran out of battery first but later he said he is without a mobile phone, which is a self-contradiction).
The host said he has hosted more than 7000 groups of guests in four years but all other guests can enter Thailand without a photo of his government ID and asking why we would need it? So I tried to ask different staffs in the immigration, but all gave me the same answer, it is a must for the host’s government ID.
I tried to reason with the host but he kept disentangling himself from our situation. He thinks we are criminals and said it is not his responsibility to help us. Upon my strong request, he sent me a photo of his government ID, which has a date stamp “30 DEC 2018 for my guests applying for visa”. From this watermark, it is easy to find he lied to me about “all other guests can enter Thailand without a photo of his government ID”. A self-contradiction again.
The funniest thing is the host refused to change the date stamp to the day we were stuck in the immigration. We tried to block the date stamp and passed the immigration eventually after a 3 or 4 hours delay in immigration.
MY THOUGHTS:
1. The host’s attitude is much below a “Superhost”. He wasn’t for helping us solve the situation but only like “don’t bother me”. He thinks the immigration refused us to entry because we are criminals, LOL.

2. The host also lied about the “hosted more than 7000 groups of guests in four years but all other guests can enter Thailand without a photo of his government ID” thing, at least some ppl in DEC 2018 asked for his government ID and he gave it.
I totally understand his concerns about sending a photo of his government ID to others. But I don’t get it as he has sent to others before. And he sent me one photo with a wrong date stamp but refused to change it to the correct date.
3. It could be just bad luck for us be asked to provide the host’s government ID. But at least the staff in immigration told me it is a must. So consider it before booking. If you are going for the visa-on-arrival, I strongly don’t recommend you book this. Imagine you are at immigration but the host refuses to provide it to you, then you can do nothing but fly back and ruin the vacation.
ONE MORE THING: there were birds waste on bedsheets, we found it on the first night, didn’t tell the host since he’s got irresponsible attitude. Not sure if it was there at check-in or some birds snapped in.